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This is a list of articles describing popular music acts that incorporate the accordion. The accordion appeared in popular music from the 1900s-1960s. This half century is often called the "Golden Age of the Accordion." Three players: Pietro Frosini, and the two brothers Count Guido Deiro and Pietro Deiro were major influences at this time.
He also performs in the world music duo Meduoteran with baglama player Taylan Arikan. [8] [9] Vukašinović invented the world's first a quarter-tone accordion. With Srdjan’s accordion, it is possible to play all 24 quarter tones within a single octave, especially on the button accordion, without changing the finger positions.
Ramón Ayala is arguably the best-known accordion player in Mexico; nicknamed the "King of the accordion", Ayala has recorded over 113 albums since the 1960s. Additionally, the accordion became a fixture in merengue music, a genre that is representative of the Dominican Republic.
The concept behind Those Darn Accordions was initially conceived by keyboardist and accordionist Linda "Big Lou" Seekins in early 1989. [2] Seekins, who was active in several Bay Area bands including the polka punk band Polkacide, was called up by the owner of San Francisco's Paradise Lounge and offered an open performance slot if she could put together a band in time. [3]
Alessandra Mignacca (born c.1977/78) – Italian accordion player, teacher; Joey Miskulin (born 1949) American accordionist, also member of western music and comedy group Riders in the Sky; Brian Mitchell – member of Fatboy Kanootch, Levon Helm Band; Aniceto Molina (1939–2015) – Colombian musician
Cormier is "one of the few women to establish herself in Cajun music" and she is the first professional female Cajun accordion musician. [6] She has been named the Cajun Queen in the United States and Europe. [5] In 1988, she was voted as Female Vocalist of the Year by The Times of Acadiana and she was given the title of Best Contemporary Artist.
Cory Pesaturo is an American multi-instrumentalist from Cumberland, Rhode Island, who plays the accordion, piano, clarinet, and saxophone.He began playing at the age of nine and became the youngest person to win the National Accordion Championship in 2002.
Myron Floren (November 5, 1919 – July 23, 2005) was an American musician best known as the accordionist on The Lawrence Welk Show between 1950 and 1980. Floren came to prominence primarily from his regular appearances on the weekly television series in which Lawrence Welk dubbed him as "the happy Norwegian," which was also attributed to Peter Friello.